David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Lighter reports that from 2015 to 2018, the number of VC investments under $5m dropped 23% from 6,709 to 5,139. Note that none of the lawyers quoted or I are rendering legal advice in this article, and you should not rely on our counsel herein for your own decisions. Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

founder

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

He signed a release and remained on the board. He regretted the decision and sued the company and the board – it’s still not totally clear to me what he was suing about. I would like to just offer some very simple advice: 1. If you think you may have to terminate employees always have legal advice.

startup

Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

When APCO pivoted away from government relations work in 2015, Chris McCannell joined leading Republican lobbyist Doyle Bartlett, former House Financial Services Republican staffer Greg Mesack and the team at what was then The Eris Group. This letter emphasized how important patents are to startup companies.

entrepreneurial ecosystem

AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

During KSGC 2021, Khenda got introduced to prominent Korean businessman Dong Hoon Shin, who eventually joined the company’s advisory board. “The mentoring program and all the advice we received from the accelerator and from all the partners we were introduced to have been very useful to us.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 30, 2023

In addition to his rich experiences working in the venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) sectors, Joseph has also sharpened his investment acumen through his multiple years in the audit and stock-broking industry before deciding to finally launch his cross-border investment firm, Kairous Capital , in 2015.

capital

This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In 2015, a female founder to a huge risk and put herself out there in an attempt to create a space that solved a real need—to create a professional space where women could feel safe and empowered. I don’t think Audrey was particularly well supported by her high-profile board members. Not that any of her non-Black board members (i.e.

hospitality

Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 22, 2019

He didn’t win the global competition that year, but Carlos went on to participate in GSEA in a variety of roles—first as a special guest in the 2013 finals, then as a jury member in the 2015 semi-finals in Thailand and, most recently, as a jury member in the 2017 semifinals in Germany. In this way, we started a new industry in El Salvador.

entrepreneurs

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2015

Tuvia Elbaum (@Tuviae) July 14, 2015. Mark Suster (@msuster) July 14, 2015. Every one of the companies in which I’m on the board will tell you that when they need me they get me – even when I’m on vacation. I sit down to get things done. And I finish. HSzvQK63th. Iran deal reached. People correct you.

VC

Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

It’s also good advice to treat your marriage like a business partnership, in that both require commitment, communication and a shared view of values and goals. In 2015, the Slaters sold the legacy to explore other endeavors. Kelvin serves on the Georgia Restaurant Association’s board of directors. In Their Words.

peer-to-peer

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 3, 2015

Scott Belsky (@scottbelsky) April 29, 2015. It spoke to me because it so resonates with my nearly daily advice to entrepreneurs and VCs alike. I went as far as to call it the best Tweet of 2015 so far because it encapsulated my advice so succinctly. I saw this Tweet recently by Scott Belsky, co-founder and CEO of Behance.

advice

Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

Ramon Ray, Smart Hustle: But I bet on your white board, even though you don’t fund startups, on the white board, I’m guessing, my words, not yours. So, we have customers who, right when we launched the product back in 2014, 2015, we have customers right from then, and we’ve grown with them.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

No board seats or personal guarantees. Revenue-based financing which “helps tech entrepreneurs get to the next level without giving up equity, board seats, or personal guarantees… At Lighter Capital, we don’t take equity or ask you to make personal guarantees. No personal guarantees, board seats, or equity sweeteners.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

44:35 – Best advice for aspiring Indian founders. I’m excited to have Vidit Aatrey, CEO and co-founder of Meesho, which was founded in 2015, and you went through YC in 2016. You will see in societies, people will just put a board outside of their house and start selling products. All right, here we go.

founder

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

We also spoke about what it takes to be an effective board member. On the one hand I often find that some board members are seemingly reading the board materials on the fly and don’t have a firm grasp of the business fundamentals while on the other hand some board members like to tinker in the running of the business.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In 2015, the world’s first and only flexible window screen was born. But we overestimated how quickly people would come on board and underestimated our industry’s tendency to move slowly and resist change. I ended up with lots of big bills, very few orders, and a fair amount of anxiety.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

So we’d love your thoughts on maybe just advice for companies rebuilding their partnership orgs or they’re developing their sophistication on the ELG front. From late 2011 until maybe 2015, RJMetrics was… the leads were flying in and falling off of our desk more days than not. It was a super exciting era.

SaaS

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

I’ve written a few posts about boards recently as part of a series on the subject. I admit that I haven’t yet read it but I’ve had numerous discussions with Brad over the years about board structure & conduct and consider him a mentor on the topic. Offering a sparring-partner function on strategic decisions.

board

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

This got him more power and with that power he executed on his belief system and had a lousy 2015 season. Great leaders communicate early and often with boards and investors. They are clear about what is working and what is not and how the board and investors can help them. Team Building. Great leaders talk with other leaders.

leadership

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The Lack of a Legitimate Board. Delaware law requires a board of directors, and these directors are tasked with a “fiduciary duty” to look after the best interest of the corporation. As such, the task of governance falls squarely on the shoulders of the board of directors. Filling a board with friends is one way to do this.

venture capital

TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2023

I’m not a market watcher or a financial expert, but here’s some advice: Panic is a luxury. There’s no question that this will impact deal-making, but uninsured customers who run startups still need to buy laptops, pay cloud vendors and cover worker salaries and benefits. Talk to some friends. Take a walk.

VC

Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

And then take your experience and turn it into a piece of thought leadership career advice to share with people reading this. My advice to people early in their career is pretty simple: your mission isn’t to pursue a career, it’s to discover it. Put yourself in interesting situations. It was also one of the hardest.

VC

Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 14, 2022

Natalie Portman, Harvard, 2015. Rather than delivering Hollywood glitz, the Academy Award winning actress gave a raw, introspective speech at Harvard commencement in 2015. The post Pomp and Reality: Real advice for today’s graduates appeared first on. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.”.

advice

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Within 5 years I was on the board of real businesses with meaningful revenue, strong balance sheets, no debt and on the path to a few interesting exits. During this era, from 2009–2015, most founders I knew were in it for building great & sustainable companies. How’s that advice holding up? Let’s deploy faster!

VC

TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

Founded out of Berlin in 2015, Wefox sells various insurance products through a combination of in-house and external brokers, bypassing the direct-to-consumer model of insurtech competitors which include rival German startup Getsafe. This represents a 50% increase on last year’s $3 billion valuation at its Series C round.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 6, 2022

( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. US Commercial Bank Auto Loans The above dataset from the Fed goes back to 2015. a new all-time high.

financing

Y Combinator

MAY 24, 2023

In 2015, Tom went on to create Monzo , one of the first app-based challenger banks in the UK and his second billion-dollar company. There’s not a startup that he can’t give useful advice to, always drawn from his own experience. In 2021, he returned to YC as a visiting group partner for the most recent three batches.

communities

TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

LawVu gives them a cloud-based platform to share legal advice, documents, communicate with each other or external counsel and create reports for the rest of the company, including the C-suite. LawVu was founded in 2015 by Boyne, who spent over a decade working in IT and operations at law firms, and Sam Kidd, a SaaS project management expert.

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